A. Stories happening in swimming competitions .
B. Two women swimmers winning Olympic golds .
C. Lessons learned from international swimming championships .
D. Friendship and competition between two swimmers .
60. Gould and Schipper are going to .
A. talk about sport and life B. go back to elite competition
C. set a qualifying time and win gold D. take part in the same sports event
61. Gould won her three Olympic golds when she was .
A. 15 B. 17 C. 22 D. 30
62. The underlined word “ it ” in the fifth paragraph probably refers to .
A. the Olympics B. the youth camp
C. the friendship D. the Australian team
63. What Schipper said showed that she .
A. was no longer Gould’s friend B. had learned a lot from Gould
C. was not interested in Gould’s stories D. would not like to compete against Gould
C
With a good shopping position and the right amount(数量)of money , any educated person ought to be able to make a living out of a bookshop . It is not a difficult trade to learn and the large chain-stores can never force the small bookseller out of existence as they have done to the corner shop . But the hours of work are very long-I was only doing a part-time job , but my boss put in a seventy-hour week ,besides regular journeys out of shopping hours to buy books .
The real reason why I should not like to be back in the book trade for life , however , is that while I was in it I lost my love of books . A bookseller cannot always tell the truth about his books , and that gives him a dislike for them . There was a time when I really did love books—loved the sight and smell and feel of them—if they were fifty or more years old , that is . Nothing pleased me quite so much as to buy a bargain lot of them on sale for several pounds . There is a peculiar flavour(独特的味道)about the unexpected books you pick up in that kind of collection: little-known eighteenth-century poets , or out-of-date geography books . For occasional(偶尔的)reading—in your bath , for example , or late at night when you are too tired to go to bed—there is nothing as good as a very old picture story-book .
But as soon as I went to work in the bookshop I stopped buying books . Seen in a mass . five or ten thousand at a time , books were dull and even a little tiresome . Nowadays I do buy one occasionally , but only if it is a book that I want to read and can’t borrow , and I never buy rubbish .
64. According to the passage , is one of the necessary conditions to run a bookshop .
A. an educated shop-owner B. a good position at a street corner
C. a regular journey out of the shop D. the force of large chain-stores
65. The author should not like to be back as a bookseller for life because .
A. he hated his job of selling books
B. selling books was only a part-time job
C. the books in the shop gave him a dislike
D. he was unable to be honest about the books he sold
66. The books preferred by the author should be those .
A. stories making readers sleepless
B. valuable ones bought on sale
C. peculiar ones with great expectation